I wanted Flip to play the bench more before last season began. He didn't and now he's gone. I expect Curry to be more focused on the whole roster and we will see a plethera of combinations this season. More experimentation will affect our record. I will also predict some serious injuries this season. Players are older and we're due. Curry will be pushing for a playoff ready team and will sacrifice regular season wins to achieve this goal. I'll go with a 43-39 regular season record, and we fall short of the ECFs...

Well if Orlando wins their division and we finish a few games behind the Cavs, the best we can shoot for is the 4th seed...

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I think they changed this rule a couple of years ago when Dallas and San Antonio met in the second round.

The 3 division winners and the fourth team are sorted in order of record to determine seeds 1-4. So if we had a better record than Orlando, we could still be the third seed even though they won their division.

Either that or the rule never actually changed like they talked about and I am on crazy pills.